pasta--is it really runner food?

Don't eat pasta.

It has too many carbs.

It makes your body doughy.

I like oatmeal or whole wheat toast with honey for your so called runner-food.

Pasta is ok, but the carbs are not complex and you could be eating more of the \"better\" carbs>

Psychological or not...my best races and workouts have always been the morning after a big ass pasta dinner...workouts and races where I felt like I could run forever...fast too.

pasta! lots of it. with marinara sauce. i guess whole wheat would be better carbs though.

bagels.

peanut butter.

bananas.

gatorade.

rice.

moderate amount of red wine.

skim milk.

yogurt.

cereal.

tuna in moderation cause of the mercury. what is the most often you'd eat tuna due to said mercury?

tabouli and humus in pita bread washed down with a banana smoothie.

bean and rice burritos.

eat this about an hour and a half before you run and you will fly. guaranteed.

how 'bout pizza with a minimal amount of cheese. i think it actually tastes better with very little cheese anyway. with veggies on top of whole wheat crust with a little olive oil drizzled on top. how 'bout that?

eat food. it works

pasta apparantly takes something like 36 to be digested properly so you don't get the benefits of it the next morning.

wisco runner wrote:

I like oatmeal or whole wheat toast with honey for your so called runner-food.

Pasta is ok, but the carbs are not complex and you could be eating more of the "better" carbs>

YES they are complex. They may be high glycemic, but they certainly ARE complex carbohydrates.

I think you need a refresher course in elementary biology.

Night before: chicken and a ton of brown rice w/ teriyaki sauce.

Morning of race: Powerbar and bagel w/ peanut butter

Whole wheat and "enriched" pasta is pretty sweet... and it keeps you regular if you know what I mean...

Double Whopper with Cheese with fries and a 16oz coke.

Dinner of champions like Michael Johnson the night before his 400m WR.

Anything that says "enriched" is awful for your body...

damn i'd hate to be near your bathrooms.

how so?

no

gwi wrote:

how so?

When something is "enriched", it's more or less garbage. Enriched white flour of any kind is something you should stay away from.

During the harvesting process, the whole grain is completely destroyed and stripped of any good things (fiber, vitamins, minerals, etc) so that you're left with a very inferior product. Then, just to "cover their asses", the companies try to put back some of the vitamins and minerals they so harshly removed earlier.

This results in cheap white bread and white pasta, which, while complex carbs, are more or less the equivalent of shoveling table sugar into your mouth. Add to this the whole "high GI" thing (if you're interested in GI at all), and you find a terrible product.

Stick to whole grains. Enriched products are trash.

hardly wrote:

no

While he may be a bit hyperbolic in his statement, he's pretty much right. As I just stated above, enriched flour/wheat products are garbage.